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February 3, 2020

Lil Nas X, Jonathan Van Ness and Ellen DeGeneres led a ‘rainbow wave’ with the queerest Super Bowl adverts ever

Lil Nas X had a dance off over a bag of Doritos, Jonathan Van Ness fixed pretzels with the help of Pop Tarts, and Katie Sowers stirred emotions with Microsoft in the biggest ever batch of LGBT-inclusive Super Bowl adverts. The Super Bowl 2020 commercials were well-populated with some of the biggest and brightest LGBT+...

February 3, 2020

Shakira’s Super Bowl halftime show sparks both a meme and a history lesson in Arabic expression

In an act of religious importance, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez delivered a joint Super Bowl halftime show performance and it sparked both memes and a crucial history lesson in Arabic and Latinx expression. In between the constellation of cameras circling the stage, Shakira looked towards one in her opening set, stuck out...

February 3, 2020

Beyoncé refused to stand for the national anthem at the Super Bowl

Beyonce and Jay-Z remained seated while Demi Lovato sang the national anthem at Super Bowl 54. TMZ shared a video of Beyoncé and Jay-Z sitting with their daughter Blue Ivy Carter while Lovato performed “The Star Spangled Banner”, much to the chagrin of conservative critics. The power couple have not confirmed...

February 3, 2020

Lady Gaga refuses to play Stupid Love at pre-Super Bowl gig, denying the gays everything they want

Lady Gaga, who once had a singing career, performed at a pre-Super Bowl show in Miami, US, and crushed fans’ hopes to hear her unreleased song, “Stupid Love”. Fans attended the Super Saturday Night concert and inked their faces with the name of the track, leaked last month, in an effort to get the singer...

February 3, 2020

Dawn Butler makes it onto Labour’s deputy leadership ballot on platform promising Gender Recognition Act reform

Labour MP Dawn Butler has made it onto the ballot for deputy leader on a strongly pro-LGBT+ platform that includes a vow to reform gender-recognition laws in the UK. Butler, who served as shadow secretary of state for women and equalities since 2017, thanked those who’d got her onto the ballot. “‘The...

February 3, 2020

Shakira and Jennifer Lopez made America gay again with their Super Bowl half time show

Shakira and Jennifer Lopez made history as the first Latina women to headline the Super Bowl half-time show since Gloria Estefan in 1999. Following two years of underwhelming Super Bowl half time shows (Justin Timberlake in 2018, Maroon 5 in 2019), pop fans were desperate for something a little less, well, straight and...

February 3, 2020

The real winner of the Super Bowl is San Francisco 49ers’ coach Katie Sowers, who made queer history at the big game

San Francisco 49ers’ Katie Sowers made sporting history on Sunday as the first woman – and the first LGBT+ person – to coach a team at the Super Bowl. Sowers, 33, was the offensive assistant coach for the big game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Although her team lost 31-20, …...

February 3, 2020

Demi Lovato predicted her own spectacular Super Bowl performance 10 years ago

Singer Demi Lovato sang at the Super Bowl over the weekend – a decade after she predicted that she’d one day perform there. Lovato gave a powerhouse performance before the game started, singing the US national anthem “Star Spangled Banner”. Multi-platinum artist Demi Lovato followed in the footsteps of...

February 3, 2020

Two West Ham fans arrested for making ‘homophobic gestures’ at Brighton supporters

Two West Ham fans have been arrested after allegedly making homophobic gestures towards Brighton supporters on Saturday. Nearly 60,000 people attended the match at London Stadium, West Ham’s home ground, where the game ended in a 3-3 draw. Another West Ham fan was arrested on suspicion of common assault, although...

February 2, 2020

The Johny Johny Yes Papa nursery rhyme turned viral meme has been given a queer makeover

In today’s thing you definitely didn’t ask for but reluctantly welcome nevertheless, there’s now a version of ‘Johny Johny Yes Papa’ with a same-sex family. The nursery rhyme-turned viral meme was born out of the hellscape that is children’s YouTube videos. There are dozens of different...